Teaching Courage in Encouragement
Hi everyone! Being a teacher for so many years has taught me lessons in patience, connection, and communication with students of all ages. And teaching …
Hawai‘i Symphony is Back!
As the COVID numbers decrease and the number of vaccinated people increase in Hawai‘i, your Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra musicians are back to playing live music …
A Little Bit of #GlobalOdetoJoy
I’m happy to be part of this video collaboration with NOI+F in celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary of birth and welcoming conductor Marin Alsop in …
Chamber Music Hawaii goes digital
As various classical music organizations (symphony orchestras, opera and ballet companies, chamber music organization, you name it) teeter-totter between opening and closing their doors during …
#SongsofComfort
Just wanted to pop in and share the first (and only) virtual project that my quartet, Galliard String Quartet, has done since March during the …
A Time of Uncertainty
Ah 2020 . . . You started rather positively, or rather, normally for me: we closed out 2019 with a pops show featuring ABBA, then …
Pacific Music Festival 2019
Learn and play your best this summer at Hawaii Youth Symphony’s music festival under the direction of Dr. John Devlin. I’ve been a clinician since …
“COMPOSED” — a film by John Beder
The Punahou Music Department and Music School proudly present a special public screening of the 2016 documentary “Composed” with the film’s director, John Beder. Following …
Pacific Music Institute 2017
The time has come to gather with many of Hawaii’s young (serious) musicians at Pacific Music Festival, a summer music festival by Hawaii Youth Symphony …
Return
Aloha everyone! This is my first entry after a LONG while of silence… many things of changed over the last 5+ years of living in …